I have made her an honourable proposal of marriage, in compliance with the request of her lamented parent, whose memory—" "Dare to utter that falsehood in my hearing again, scoundrel," interrupted Thames fiercely, "and I will put it out of your power to repeat the offence. Her head ached with a hollow pain. ‘Yes, dear Nan, a flirtation. Hastening to the church, he entered it by the very door near which his first crime had been committed. But Miss Mary and me—’ Melusine looked up as the woman broke off again. ‘Naturally I had to come,’ confirmed the lively blonde, her eyes twinkling up at Alderley. In a fit of despondency, superinduced by drunkenness, he made away with himself; and when the body was discovered, after a lapse of some months, such was the impression produced by the spectacle —such the alarm occasioned by the crazy state of the building, and, above all, by the terror inspired by strange and unearthly noises heard during the night, which were, of course, attributed to the spirit of the suicide, that the place speedily enjoyed the reputation of being haunted, and was, consequently, entirely abandoned. . Brendon and Courtlaw who had been watching for her, met her at the door. He looked at her, hurt. She got up and unlocked the door. “But you do not know,” she whispered, “whether I am a married woman or not. Pramlay received them in the pretty chintz drawing-room, which opened by French windows on the trim garden, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net in the middle distance, and its remote rose alley lined with smart dahlias and flaming sunflowers.
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